What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.